What's the difference between entangle and ravel?

Entangle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
  • (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Was all the entanglement research done in the meantime, including Einstein's, unscientific metaphysics?
  • (2) Americans Stuart Freedman and Jon Clauser and French physicist Alain Aspect were the first to verify quantum entanglement experimentally.
  • (3) The commonest causes of death were pneumonia and entanglement in fishing gear.
  • (4) Monoamniotic twin pregnancy involves a heavy risk of fatal umbilical cord entanglement.
  • (5) Even extraembryonic membranes can form strands of tissue that can entangle the delicate developing foot plate, and calcaneovalgus deformities could conceivably be established.
  • (6) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.
  • (7) These difficulties are not easy to approach as much as psychological and organic factors may be entangled.
  • (8) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
  • (9) Nuclei appear to be entangled in the channel system and move in an unusual, rolling fashion.
  • (10) The web of human entanglement resulting from the cry "rape" may twist and disrupt the lives of the persons involved.
  • (11) The congestive cases were characterized by decreased and disdarrayed myofibrils (loose myofibril disorientation), wheras the hypertrophic cases by abundant myofibrils characteristically entangled with each other (tight myofibril disorientation).
  • (12) Scanning electron microscopy indicates that these aggregates are surface microvilli entangled with attached EPEC.
  • (13) During a visit to Britain before he launched his campaign, Walker was so anxious to avoid awkward entanglements that he refused to say whether he believed in evolution, an incident that set of a chain of increasingly controversial comments on social issues.
  • (14) Although monoamniotic twins frequently die related to cord knotting, sonographic visualization of cord entanglement does not imply impending demise.
  • (15) Deposits consisted of dense aggregations of randomly entangled spicules spreading within bundles of collagen fibrils.
  • (16) It would be a little surprising if TNC didn't invest in fossil fuels, given its various other entanglements with the sector.
  • (17) Umbilical cord entanglement was found in 34% of 555 women in labour.
  • (18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
  • (19) The gel network in mucus may not be infinite, but only an effectively entangled system of very large molecules.
  • (20) Thermally reversible aqueous gels (crystallized from an under-cooled, rubbery melt) are described by a "fringed micelle" structural model for a three-dimensional polymer network, composed of microcrystalline junction zones crosslinking plasticized amorphous regions of flexible-coiled, entangled chain segments.

Ravel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
  • (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
  • (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
  • (v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
  • (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
  • (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (2) Maurice Ravel had been subject to psychiatric disorder for many years when signs of organic brain disease appeared at the age of 52.
  • (3) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
  • (4) What makes Ravel's history interesting to the public as well as to physicians is not only the tragic toll exacted in this composer's personal and creative life but also the resultant loss of the output of one of the 20th century's towering musical geniuses.
  • (5) Having offloaded Jonjo Shelvey amid rumours that he was a disruptive, brooding influence, Swansea City have decided to enquire about bringing disruptive, brooding influence Ravel Morrison to the Liberty Stadium from Lazio.
  • (6) The last time I saw Ravel Morrison he was in the dock at Salford magistrates' court, fiddling with his tie and waiting to hear whether he was going to be locked up.
  • (7) FC Astana FC Shakhter Karagandy FC Aktobe Ravel Morrison moved to Lazio in 2015.
  • (8) West Ham's Matt Jarvis cut in from the left wing and slipped the ball to Ravel Morrison, whose strike was deflected into the net off the chest of Phil Jagielka.
  • (9) Ravel Morrison starts, though, which is good news for fans of football.
  • (10) But Big Sam's tactic of endless high crosses appears to have been rumbled and there's no sign of Plan B. Allardyce has to convince the board he can play more expansive football to fill the Olympic Stadium, settle his differences with Ravel Morrison and learn some PR skills.
  • (11) (Lax, S.R., Lauer, S.J., Browning, K. S., and Ravel, J.M.
  • (12) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
  • (13) (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., Humphreys, J., Ravel, J. M., Jobling, S. A., and Gehrke, L. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (14) We showed previously that wheat germ extracts contain two forms of protein synthesis initiation factor 4F that have very similar functional properties (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., and Ravel, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (15) This observation is in agreement with our previous finding (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
  • (16) Ravel left no completed composition after an accident to the head in 1932.
  • (17) At 58, Ravel was struck with aphasia, which quelled any further artistic output.
  • (18) Previous work has shown that eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-4B from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 80 and 28 kDa, and eIF-4F from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 220 and 26 kDa (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
  • (19) Hmmm ... On the subject of Ravel Morrison , who has been linked with a move to Fulham, McDonald said "I would imagine Ravel will be staying until I'm told otherwise."
  • (20) They will remember the second half for many years and, if any gloss were required,, which is highly debatable, it was provided by Ravel Morrison, the mercurially gifted midfielder, who scored a goal that had the wow factor stamped all over it.